In my start of Linux a little over a year ago, I tried Mandrake, SUSE, Slackware, and a few others. I stuck with Mandrake the longest, because it made things work for my system easier than the others, and it was pretty straight forward. (YMMV) But, I, even then, hated RPM. YAST was ok, but it wasn't what I thought of for an easy install. I've started using Kubuntu (cause I like KDE) and apt-get is a wonderful thing. It takes all the frustration out of the dependancy hell with RPM and no worries on incompatible RPM packages. It just seems to work better.
I've yet to try Gentoo, so I can't speak for emerge, but apt-get has made me enjoy the Linux experience so much more than I did with RPM based distros.
You're a fucking Hypocrite. You throw out the "racism" card, which would be more like "nationalism" used in the appropriate sense, because he blames the French in an overtly benign manner. Yet, you call myself and all others from my country "wanna-be" Americans. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I do believe that the US of A is also located on the North American Continent. I also believe Mexico is too. We're all North Americans. It just so happens that the world has tended to call the people from my country "Americans" because it's easier to say than "United Satesians" The people from your country have been coined "Canadians" because it's your country's name and it's easy to say.
You either need to put the "race" card up, or change your Sig to reflect the fact that you share this continent with two other countries who are equally "American" in the literal sense; since you're so adament on abolition of "racism."
Unless, of course, it's only "racism" that you happen to disagree with that you fight...
The Mac version, Entourage, that comes with Office 2004 is just as nice. In fact, Entourage is why I started using Outlook on my PCs. I couldn't live without a calendering app. In fact, I've thought about buying a PDA that will sink with Outlook and Entourage. Any ideas?
This is kinda how Quicksilver does this with pre-10.4 (Not having 10.4 I can't talk about how quicksilver interacts with spotlight et al). It didn't matter where anything was, particularly, you just type in the name of it, and hit enter. Voila, it opens up in the approptiate program. This idea does take some getting used to, you're quite right. But I think after people try it for a couple of days, then they'll realize that the database (or catalog as far as QS goes) model is vastly more efficient. Rather than having to remember where you put that file you use twice a quarter, you can just type it in, and there you have it. No hunting, no guessing, it's there when you need it and that's what's important.
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Hey, I'm wanting to start selling some of my photrography, but Not sure where to start. If you could email me (tyler@tylerfontaine.com) then I'd appreciate it!
using your logic, no one does anything but follow recipe's. Nevermind the fact that I can do it by memory. What difference does it make if someone follows a set of instructions? If they didn't follow the standard nothing would work. You can't just plug anything anywhere... it just doesn't work that way.
There's no production line, lol, it's just me and my boss. And how many places you know tie back all the cables? Care is taken, we don't want to have to see the machines again until they're so infested with spyware by the idiot lusers that we need to reload them. Even then, that's not cool, cause we offer free labor for 3 years. Reloads included. So we don't fuck around. If we gave shitty product, that 3 year warantee would bite us pretty hard in the ass.
one would assume that anyone reading slashdot is savvy enough to understand how to use a screwdriver. That's about all the knowledge it takes. I'd not built one before I started working here, and I've only been here for about 2 months. The first one took me a little over 30 minutes. Even then, it's not difficult. Everything is labled and color coded... it's still not hard
I work in a computer shop. We sell custom rigs; it takes about 20 minutes to go from parts to installing windows... and that includes zip tying all the annoying power cables inside so they look nice...
building them isn't anything that's too difficult.
If I had mod points, I'd definitely mod you up. I agree whole-heartedly. I will admit, though, that it's extremely tough for me to look at homosexuality as an equal to other sins.
Amen to that. I did lots of work for the Local School district here where I lived. I showed them that trick, and how it worked every time. They refused to do it that way, and I always had to fix their shit. Oh well, $10 an hour was well worth the ease of the job.
Hae you ever done a clean load of 98 on the crawling 98 machine? It runs better than XP! On the hardware of (most of) those machines, 98 is the best option. XP just bogs down all the ones I've tried it on.
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I've yet to try Gentoo, so I can't speak for emerge, but apt-get has made me enjoy the Linux experience so much more than I did with RPM based distros.
You either need to put the "race" card up, or change your Sig to reflect the fact that you share this continent with two other countries who are equally "American" in the literal sense; since you're so adament on abolition of "racism."
Unless, of course, it's only "racism" that you happen to disagree with that you fight...
By not requiring a completely separate production line.
Ahh, that's why. I wore my CK jeans on a Tuesday, and here I thought it was Thursdays I could never get the hang of!
*sigh* that's what I get for not proofreading :(
The Mac version, Entourage, that comes with Office 2004 is just as nice. In fact, Entourage is why I started using Outlook on my PCs. I couldn't live without a calendering app. In fact, I've thought about buying a PDA that will sink with Outlook and Entourage. Any ideas?
(Don't kill me... it's been a long day :))
This is kinda how Quicksilver does this with pre-10.4 (Not having 10.4 I can't talk about how quicksilver interacts with spotlight et al). It didn't matter where anything was, particularly, you just type in the name of it, and hit enter. Voila, it opens up in the approptiate program. This idea does take some getting used to, you're quite right. But I think after people try it for a couple of days, then they'll realize that the database (or catalog as far as QS goes) model is vastly more efficient. Rather than having to remember where you put that file you use twice a quarter, you can just type it in, and there you have it. No hunting, no guessing, it's there when you need it and that's what's important.
too true. Normally I do. I just forgot. Thanks for fixing it for me though :)
Yeah, but verbing nouns weirds the language.
OT. Hey, I'm wanting to start selling some of my photrography, but Not sure where to start. If you could email me (tyler@tylerfontaine.com) then I'd appreciate it!
I personally think that Airsoft tournaments on airplanes would be really fun! Flights wouldn't be so boring then, anyhow.
using your logic, no one does anything but follow recipe's. Nevermind the fact that I can do it by memory. What difference does it make if someone follows a set of instructions? If they didn't follow the standard nothing would work. You can't just plug anything anywhere... it just doesn't work that way.
There's no production line, lol, it's just me and my boss. And how many places you know tie back all the cables? Care is taken, we don't want to have to see the machines again until they're so infested with spyware by the idiot lusers that we need to reload them. Even then, that's not cool, cause we offer free labor for 3 years. Reloads included. So we don't fuck around. If we gave shitty product, that 3 year warantee would bite us pretty hard in the ass.
one would assume that anyone reading slashdot is savvy enough to understand how to use a screwdriver. That's about all the knowledge it takes. I'd not built one before I started working here, and I've only been here for about 2 months. The first one took me a little over 30 minutes. Even then, it's not difficult. Everything is labled and color coded... it's still not hard
I work in a computer shop. We sell custom rigs; it takes about 20 minutes to go from parts to installing windows... and that includes zip tying all the annoying power cables inside so they look nice... building them isn't anything that's too difficult.
Is that kinda like Chaotic Evil? or would it be neutral good?
did you happen to type a specific series of keys and hit delete? that can have the same effect if it's the right series of keys.
Something like this
Oh yeah. :-(
If I had mod points, I'd definitely mod you up. I agree whole-heartedly. I will admit, though, that it's extremely tough for me to look at homosexuality as an equal to other sins.
Amen to that. I did lots of work for the Local School district here where I lived. I showed them that trick, and how it worked every time. They refused to do it that way, and I always had to fix their shit. Oh well, $10 an hour was well worth the ease of the job.
fair enough. But 2000 is much less a resource hog than XP. They're different animals on that kind of hardware
P.S.: People pay me to fix their computers, too.
no... Soup is better :)